What are you reading? – 4 July 2019
Our weekly glance over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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English regulator issues first refusal on provider loan access
OfS rules that Bloomsbury Institute Limited cannot be included on register of providers because of quality and governance concerns
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Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay, by J.J. Murphy
Lucy Bolton reflects on the links between the action on screen and real life in American independent cinema
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A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry, by Sam Illingworth
Tom McLeish delves into the complex relations between scientific and poetic creativity
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Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Sharon Wheeler celebrates the core journalistic skills that changing technology are unlikely to render obsolete
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Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket, by Fraser MacDonald
Commies, wizards, women…Alice Gorman is delighted by an account that overturns most of what we thought we knew about the early US space effort
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THE Europe Teaching Rankings 2019: going from strength to strength
We’ve added bold metrics, improved methodology and widened our coverage, Phil Baty writes
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THE Europe Teaching Rankings 2019: collaboration is key for keeping students engaged
Encouraging good relationships between faculty and students, and creating diverse, international classrooms are priorities in Europe, finds Ellie Bothwell
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THE Europe Teaching Rankings 2019: regional variations
The move towards internationalisation varies across the continent, finds Simon Baker
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THE Europe Teaching Rankings 2019: studying abroad
New measures are helping us to better understand the experiences of students studying abroad and expand our global view, Duncan Ross writes
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage, by Lewis Erenberg
Book of the week: Kasia Boddy enjoys an analysis of one of the greatest sporting events of all time
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THE Europe Teaching Rankings 2019: results announced
Spain makes progress in THE ranking of teaching prowess in Europe
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USC to pay San Diego $50 million for poaching scientist
Fast-growing Los Angeles campus had long insisted no impropriety in luring Paul Aisen, his data and his team
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Ex-Michigan governor abandons Harvard fellowship after protests
Rick Snyder withdraws following criticism of his role in the Flint drinking water scandal